Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May became the latest celebrity to counterbalance in Sunday on arguable architecture assignment associated with the alteration of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture, a activity that opponents say will endanger attenuate apricot species.

May took to amusing media to appetite added bodies to assurance a address calling on U.S. President Donald Trump’s administering to arbitrate in the arguable alteration of the U.S. aggressive base.

“URGENT !!! URGENT !!! PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION to save a admirable apricot beach and irreplaceable eco-system, threatened by USA extending an airbase,” May wrote on Cheep to his about 840,000 followers.

The abstraction of Okinawan-Hawaiian activist Robert Kajiwara, 32, the petition, blue-blooded “Stop the landfill of Henoko/Oura Bay until a election can be captivated in Okinawa,” was created application the White House’s “We the People” address website.

Japan and the United States accept been gluttonous to backpack the Futenma abject from a awash residential breadth of Ginowan to the beneath busy littoral commune of Henoko in Nago. The Japanese government afresh began full-fledged landfill assignment as allotment of the alteration plan admitting assiduous bounded opposition.

An Okinawa prefectural election on the abject alteration plan will be captivated Feb. 24, with Gov. Denny Tamaki acquisitive it will be a adventitious to added authenticate Okinawa’s opposition.

The address was due to abutting Monday, but Kajiwara said in a cheep Sunday that it will abide accessible until the Trump administering responds.

“Everyone, I accept accustomed notification that the address will abide OPEN until the White House provides a response! Let’s get as abounding signatures as accessible in adjustment to assure Henoko!” he wrote.

Kajiwara additionally wrote that he had accustomed in Washington for a planned annual appointment and assemblage in advanced of the White House appointed for Monday.

Announcing the assemblage backward aftermost month, Kajiwara said he hoped it would “send a bulletin to Washington, D.C.”

“We are acquisitive President Trump will booty the affair at Henoko actively and achievement he will adjustment at atomic a acting arrest on the landfill until the referendum,” he said.

Kajiwara was additionally quoted as adage that he had “received confirmation” that a letter he had accounting to Trump had accustomed at the White House, and that agnate belletrist had been beatific to added than 100 top U.S. admiral and assembly including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The letter to President Trump allegorical him about our address has accustomed at the White House. Agnate letters/emails to added U.S. government admiral accept additionally accustomed at their destinations.

We are cat-and-mouse for their reply!https://t.co/x4B8Jt7Tpz Media Rob Kajiwara ❄️🌨️☃️🎄🎅🏽 (@robkajiwara) January 7, 2019

The petition, which garnered the abutment of Tamaki and assorted Japanese celebrities, accomplished 100,000 signatures aural 10 canicule of its conception on Dec. 8, before the claim for a acknowledgment by the White House.

Japan-based celebrities such as archetypal and extra Rola and pop brilliant Ryuchell, who hails from Okinawa, accept aloft acquaintance about the address via their amusing media accounts.

On her Instagram account, which has some 5.2 actor followers, Rola said that the affirmation of Okinawa’s admirable sea could be chock-full if bodies came together, and alleged for their letters to be delivered to the White House.

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